Social Psych

Question 1

Groupthink

Answer 1

when people within a group feel it is more important to maintain the group’s cohesiveness than to consider the facts realistically

Question 2

Conformity (Asch)

Answer 2

changing one’s own behavior to more closely match the actions of others.

Question 3

Compliance

Answer 3

occurs when person changes behavior due to another person or group asking

Question 4

Social loafing

Answer 4

When people do not work hard in group work settings. Easy to ‘hide’ in group, people believe others will ‘catch’ them

Question 5

Deindividuation

Answer 5

Group members might feel anonymous and experience less personal responsibility

Question 6

Group polarization

Answer 6

Presence of others increases extreme positions

Question 7

Milgram’s study

Answer 7

The teacher learner shocking study where nobody stopped shocking the learner because of obedience

Question 8

Compliance techniques

Answer 8

Foot in the door: Small request followed by larger request
Door in the face: Large request that someone says no to followed by smaller, reasonable request
Lowball: Person makes commitment, cost of commitment is then increased

Question 9

Normative conformity

Answer 9

To fit in or get approval from a group

Question 10

Informational conformity

Answer 10

Formal rules
You think the group is right/knows something you don’t

Question 11

Obedience

Answer 11

Changing due to authority figure

Question 12

Milgram

Answer 12

Teacher administered shocks to learner, told to continue when they didn’t want to, obeyed bc of authority figure telling them to

Question 13

Zimbardo

Answer 13

Stanford Prison experiment

Question 14

Cognitive dissonance

Answer 14

When thoughts don’t match with actions or attitudes

Question 15

How people deal with cognitive dissonance

Answer 15

Either change thoughts, behavior, or form entirely new thoughts

Question 16

Attitude

Answer 16

A tendency to respond positively or negatively to certain ideas, people, object, or situations
Learned

Question 17

ABC model of attitude

Answer 17

Affect: How people feel about it
Behavior: How people act
Cognitive component: person’s thoughts about it

Question 18

Attitude formation

Answer 18

Direct contact, direct instruction, vicarious learning (observational

Question 19

Peripheral route processing

Answer 19

Info processing that relies on content outside message

Question 20

Central route processing

Answer 20

Ppl attend to content of message

Question 21

Persuasion components

Answer 21

Source, message, target audience, medium

Question 22

Social categorization

Answer 22

when people meet a new person they assign them to category or group

Question 23

implicit personality theories

Answer 23

sets of assumptions people have about how different types of people, traits, and actions are related.

helps forms schemas

Question 24

Attribution

Answer 24

the need people have to explain the behavior of others and themselves

Question 25

Types of cause of behavior

Answer 25

External sources: Situational cause
Internal sources: dispositional cause

Question 26

Fundamental attribution error

Answer 26

When people overestimate internal and underestimate external on others’ behavior

Question 27

Actor observer bias

Answer 27

We use situational instead of dispositional on our own behavior

Question 28

realistic conflict theory

Answer 28

Prejudice tied to increasing conflicts between groups when after same resource

Question 29

Social identity theory

Answer 29

identification of social identity and social comparison to others/groups

Question 30

Stereotype vulnerability

Answer 30

When knowledge of others’ stereotypes of you can affect behavior

Question 31

Equal status contact

Answer 31

All in same situation with no power over each other
Worked in that camp of boys

Question 32

Rules of attraction

Answer 32

Physical attraction, proximity, similarity, reciprocity of liking

Question 33

Triangular theory of love (Sternberg)

Answer 33

3 components and the types of love they can produce

Question 34

3 components of love

Answer 34

Intimacy: feelings of close emotional ties
Passion: Physical and emotional arousal
Commitment: Decisions one makes about relationships

Question 35

Prosocial behavior

Answer 35

Social behavior that benefits others

Question 36

Altruism

Answer 36

Helping someone without expectation of reward

Question 37

Bystander effect

Answer 37

Likelihood of bystander helping decreasing as number of bystanders increases. Bystanders will go along with others’ behaviors

Question 38

Diffusion of responsibility

Answer 38

When person fails to take responsibility because of presence of others who seem to share it

Question 39

Mere exposure effect

Answer 39

Being attracted to someone because of proximity